âFather, forgive
them; for they know not what they do!â This famous quotation could be
the deepest conclusion of my study of how our ruling
âadrenalinomaniacsâ have blindly created the almost seven billion of us
and, equally blindly, now seem to be preparing the crucifixion of
mankind.

You will find below some information about this
latest â and possibly last â serious book of mine, THE BIOLOGICAL
ORIGIN OF EVIL. There are three elements.

The first is a
somewhat provocative summary in half a dozen lines. My publisher has
called me a âpolitical commentatorâ. Some think, from my half-century
of writing in Sweden, that I deserve the title âprovocateur
professionnelâ. My interest as a social scientist has always been to
come as close to the âtruthâ as possible. And truth is always
provocative for the leaders of mankind!

The second part is the
full introductory chapter, and the third is the bookâs table of
contents. The book has been published and cannot be changed, but I
intend to continue studying these issues, health and age permitting,
and I intend to add to relevant chapters of it news, responses to
criticisms, changes and whatever else I deem of interest. You can find
such changes in chapter 16 of the ZOOPOLITOLOGY item at the top right
corner of the first page of this website, www.philosophicalpark.org

Well
aware that one learns more from critical than from positive comments, I
would welcome your views. So just go ahead and write to me!

February 13th 2009I.THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF EVILA new book by the political commentator Professor Gunnar Adler-Karlsson

Replace
our 3000-year-old Mosaic world view with 30 years of biological truth,
the mediaâs dayfly-perspective with 6 million years of genetic human
nature, the notion âevilâ with âbiological tragedyâ, the wealthyâs race
for riches with dogâs chase after sticks, Homo sapiens sapiens with
H.s. praedator, the gods of religions with Nature, and as you, like
every human being, are an improbable biological miracle, love your
neighbour as yourself!

This is a sample of the authorâs âmodest
proposalsâ for hindering the human race from blindly drifting towards a
nuclear Armageddon. Below is his own short summary of the book.

II.Introduction.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, There is neither Jew nor Greek, but a citizen of the world. â¦for ye are all one.Socrates St. Paul

Religion
tells us we are all equal. We are all equal before the almighty God. We
are created in his image. Nature is given us by God as a tool.

Evil is what sins against God, against his commandments or against his chosen people.

Biology
tells us we are all unequal. Before the almighty nature we are all
unequal. We are created as thinking predators by nature and in nature.
Predators live on the conditions of nature. To destroy nature too much
would be human suicide.

Evil is here the behaviour that
emerges when there are too many of us on a given territory. Hunger then
drives us into a blind Darwinian struggle for power. To win it we keep
inventing ever better tools and weapons. These help ever more people to
survive. Soon they are too many, also for a somewhat bigger territory.
And so the dance can continue for thousands of years, with more hunger,
more warfare, better tools and weapons, more human beings, more
hungerâ¦.and so on.

Evil is here a concept that is used as a
mental weapon. It says that our enemies are evil and fallen, which then
justifies that they are attacked, punished, enslaved or killed.

Thanks
to this eternal circular process ever more human beings survive, but
under ever fewer truly sovereign rulers. In retrospect this process,
with hunger, war, slavery, greed and much more, is normally seen as
âevilâ. But from a short-term religious point of view it is either
âgoodâ or âevilâ, depending upon who happens to win in a contemporary
conflict.

This process is, however, neither good nor evil. It is
blind! It consists of a blindly emerging series of actions, ruled by
our at least six million years old and inherited instincts, by our four
basic human needs, for food, sex, power and for ever better tools and
weapons.

Every time we call our neighbour âevilâ and impute
âguiltâ to him for the horrors that happen we make the efforts to
create a peaceful world more difficult. No condemnations of him as âthe
great Satanâ or as part of âthe Axis of Evilâ will deliver us from
these inherited biological circles.

A peaceful world can be
attained only when we become conscious of the existence of these almost
hard-wired deterministic elements in ourselves and learn, at least in
some small degree, to master them, to master our own biological
instincts and our basic human needs.

This is, however, difficult
because in its monotheistic forms the religious world view, with its
extreme stress on good and evil, started to grow already some three
millennia ago. Thanks to an intensive watering in schools, in churches
and in daily prayers it has taken firm roots in the thinking predators.
It is based on a belief in a metaphysical creator, omnipotent,
omniscient and omnipresent, today the ideal for the intelligence
organizations of the superpowers.

In its modern form the
biological world view has emerged from the past thirty years of
intensification of the genetic inheritance research of Johann Gregor
Mendel. Only during the most recent one percent of the religious period
has it taken strong roots in medicine and in the control instruments of
power. In social thinking, on the contrary, the insight that men are
all alike only in being predators, and predators with unequal Darwinian
âfitnessâ for survival in a given nature, this has remained a taboo
subject.

Because of that we are, so far, not able to master our
warlike instincts any more than hungry polar bears in front of a seal
cub.

This unavoidable truth has not yet taken root among those who openly discuss our future.

All
new religions have been conflict-creating âcounter religionsâ. How we
could now, in a peaceful way, unite the two world views is what I
mainly meditate upon in this book. As it is a fabulously big subject I
have chosen only one, but a not unimportant detail. My dream is that we
should be able to leave the hate-creating concept of âevilâ behind us
and instead, in the dangerous age of nuclear bombs, try to replace it
with the both forgiving and more correct âbiological tragedyâ.

I
am convinced that such a mental change would contribute to a prolonging
of manâs existence on this planet where nature, as I will show in the
last chapter, has given us a handful of scientific wonders, so
miraculous that we should respect and worship nature, our true creator,
at least as much as we have worshipped our metaphysical gods.

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This
book started as chapter 16, a summary of several years of study that
can be read on my website, www.philosophicalpark.org under the concept
of âzoopolitologyâ. There the reader who so might wish can also see how
my thoughts have been developing. There I also will continue, as long
as I can, to meditate upon the problems of our global society and
perhaps also give some answer to the critique that is unavoidable for a
book of this type. If any reader would like to contact me directly,
please mail to Box 79, IT-80071 Anacapri, Italy, as spam problems
interfere with my e-mails.

*******

If
I would try to print my warm thanks to all friends who in one way or
another have helped me write this book, it might get twice as thick. My
gratitude to all of you is strong and warm! Biggest and warmest to my
wife, Marianne, who for half a century has been tirelessly patient with
a most tiresome book writer.

Chapter II. THE ULTIMATE EXPLANATIONII:1. Gilgamesh and stem cellsII:2. Einstein and EpimetheusII:3. Why this fear?II:4. The most dangerous animalII:5. The Scare of the No-globals

Chapter III. OUR CAMPBELLIAN REALITYIII:1. The expulsion from paradiseIII:2. The Campbellian marginIII:3. Life is not something naturalIII:4. Natural selection of fratricide?III:5. Some Campbellian consequencesIII:6. The key question : our daily breadIII:7. Imperialism: the scaring sideIII:8. Imperialism : the good sideIII.9. The unavoidable hierarchyIII:10. Discrimination or love?

Chapter IV. SOME HATE-CREATING TRAGEDIESIV:1. Nature or nurture? New light on the old questionIV:2. The tragedy of animal Human NatureIV:3. The misuse of our intelligenceIV:4. The non-use of a global Superbrain?IV:5. Freedom is predeterminedIV:6. The tragedy of âevilâ

Chapter V. CONTRASTING TWO WORLD VIEWSV:1. Back to polar bears and bullsV:2. Evil is dependent on âfree willâV:3. A conflict between the two world viewsV:4. Is Aumannâs religion a lifted sword?V:5. How widespread is Aumannâs world view?V:6. My own Weltanschauung V:7. Sibi imperare

Chapter VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY OWN WORLD VIEWVI:1. My own mental backgroundVI:2. A hexagon modelVI:3. My confusing hexagonsVI:4. Questions to a chaotic reality

Chapter VII. ON âFREE WILLâVII:1. Does free will exist?VII:2. Biological âfields of forceâVII:3. What is free will?VII:4. Simply like axonal trial and error?VII:5. Can free will be exploited? Tobacco?

Chapter VIII. FREE WILL AND THE DREAM OF JERUSALEMVIII:1. Einsteinâs unrealistic world viewVIII:2. The Jewish dream of JerusalemVIII:3. Jerusalem â a lifting of the left arm?a. Short perspectiveb. Two warningsc. Dubbel loyalty ?d. Are we all anti-Semites ?e. What happened before Stalin?f. Protestant fanatics in the USAg. Caveat!VIII:4. My biological dream?

Chapter IX. CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONSIX:1. The basic challenge for our grandchildrenIX:2. The unavoidable Malthusian marginIX:3. Limit Darwinian strugglesIX:4. One million billion brain connections vs. four basic needsIX:5. Human power: God-like or dog-like?IX:6. Power and the minimization of A/PIX:7. The illusion of sovereigntyIX:8. Mendel and responsibility for the global futureIX:9. Global democracyIX:10. Can we tame capitalism?IX:11. Aumannâs âego rationalityâ.IX:12 Einsteinâs âspecie-rationalityâIX: 13 Forget revenge!IX: 14 Substitue âbiological tragedyâ for evil

Chapter X. BIOLOGICAL MIRACLES OF LIFEX:1. The miracle of creationX:2. The miracle of lifeX:3. The miracle of evolutionX:4. The miracle of the individualX:5. The miracle of human culture